Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23197, Peter Dimmick, Conn.

SERVICE
John
Dimmick, Peter Dimmick
NUMBER _____
NUMBER D 23197
CONTENTS

Letter to Saml. Dake 5 March 1838
Albany 31.843
Peter Dinick
of Oneida Co in the State of N. York who was a Private in the _____ commander by Captain _____ of the Regt _____ commander by Col. Webb in the Conn line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 20 Dollars _____ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of March 1837 and sent to Saml. Dake New Hartford, N. Y.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 122.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 st Sep. " 10.00 $130.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 28, 1836. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book E. 2. Vol. 4 th Page 17

28.170
Peter Dinnick
2961

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832.
State of New York } Oneida County } ss.
On this 29 th day of October - in the year 1833 personally appeared in open court before Nathan Williams Vice Chancellor of the Fifth Circuit of the state of New York in the court of Chancery now sitting Peter Dimick resident of Kirkland in the said county of Oneida aged more than seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, viz -
That he entered the army of the United States in the year 1779 at Mansfield in the county of Windham & state of Connecticut as a private soldier and as a substitute for his father whose name was also Peter Dimick & who was drafted from the Militia for the service of the Revolutionary Army; in the company of Captain Nathaniel Hall whose Lieutenant's name was Daniel Dunham, and the name of the Quartermaster of the regiment was Isaac Barrows or Burrows: - but by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory & the great lapse of time, he is not now able to state the names of any other regular officer of the troops or regiment in which he served at this time: - that immediately after entering said service he marched with his company to Groton in Connecticut, & at and about the Fort in that place he served the full term of three months, & that his services were principally those of a waiter in attendance upon the officers, doing the duties & drudgeries incident to such a station; and after the expiration of said term of three months he was regularly discharged but did not and he now believes receive any written discharge.
That in the latter part of the year 1779 he again entered the army of the United States at Fishkill in the state of New York as a substitute for his brother Joseph Dimick, now dead, who had then enlisted in said service; and as such substitute he the said Peter Dimick served the full term of seven months partly in the year 1779 & partly in the year 1780 as a private soldier, partly in the state of New York and partly in the state of New Jersey and at the end of said term was regularly discharged & received as he now thinks a written discharge, but if so, it is now lost & gone. During this period of service he was not called into any battle with the enemy, but was mostly engaged in marching from one place to another as ordered by the officers.

And the said Peter Dinick further states that by reason of old age & infirmities & the great lapse of time and consequent loss of memory he is unable to recollect the name of any one of the regular officers with whom he served in this last mentioned term.
And in answer to the several interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, the said Peter Dinick further states viz -
To the first interrogatory he answers that he was born at Mansfield in the county of Windham & state of Connecticut in the month of August in the year 1761.
To the second he answers that he has no record of his age, nor is there any to his knowledge among any of his friends.
To the third he answers that his home was at Mansfield aforesaid when called into the services aforesaid & during the Revolutionary War & since that period till about twenty years since when he removed from Mansfield to New York & made a settlement in in the town then called Paris, from which the town of Kirkland aforesaid has since been erected, where he now resides
To the fourth he answers that he was called into service, in the first instance as a substitute for his father Peter Dinick, and in the second instance as a substitute for his brother Joseph Dinick as before stated.
To the fifth he answers that he cannot be more particular to name nor recollect the the names of the regular officers who were with the troops where he served, than he has done in the preceding part of this declaration on account of the reasons there stated.
To the sixth he answers that he believes he received a written discharge but once, & that is now lost.
To the seventh he answers that he is not aware of Rev? Ebenezer Cook, of the town of Paris, of which the town of Kirkland is a part, & Amos H. How of said town of Kirkland, or any other person who can testify as to his character for truth, or his age and services, as a soldier of the revolution. He therefore refers himself to the war Department for more satisfactory evidence.
And he further states that he has made enquiry & cannot ascertain that any person is now living who knows of his services as aforesaid & if any be now living he does not know where they reside; And he hereby expressly relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state
Subscribed & sworn to 29 th day of October 1833.
Peter Dinick
before me N. W. Williams Notary Public

We Chester Cook, a clergyman of the town of Paris, Oneida County, and Amos H. Howe of Kirkland, formerly in the town of Paris residing in the town town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Dimick who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration - that he is a respectable person & reputed to be a man of truth - that we believe him to be more than seventy two years of age - that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that belief.
Subscribed & sworn the 29 th day of October 1833.
before me N.W. Williams
Vice Chan.
Chester Cook
Amos H. Howe
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. - And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Chester Cook, who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Kirkland aforesaid; and that Amos H. Howe of Kirkland , who has also signed the same is a resident in the town town, and is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
N.W. Williams
Vice Chan.
I, James Watson Williams, Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the state of New York for the fifth Circuit of said state do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Peter Dimick for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twenty ninth day of October in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three.
J. Watson Williams
Clerk in Chancery
5 th Circuit N.Y.

I Frederick Pearl of Willington in the county of Tolland & State of Connecticut being seventy three years of age do depose and say that Joseph Simick then of Willington in the state of Connecticut in year 1777 enlisted a private in Capt Jonathan Parker company Second Connecticut Regt commanded by Charles Webb, for three years Peter Dimick then of Mansfield now of Paris State of New York Brother to said Joseph joined sd company in the year of 1779 in the summer as a Substitute for his Brother Joseph commanded then by Capt Woolcot and in Col. Isaac Sherman Regt and done duty as a soldier in sd company until some time in the winter following and that I enlisted in the year 1777 and served in sd company & Regt for the term of three years and further the deponent saith not
Frederick Pearl.
Tolland County ss
Willington December 19 th 1834
Personally appeared the above Frederick Pearl and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition before me
Oliver D. Amos Justice of Peace

I Frederick Pearl of Willington in the county of Tolland & State of Connecticut being seventy three years of age do depose and say that Joseph Dimick then of Willington in the state of Connecticut in year 1777 enlisted a private in Capt Jonathan Parker company Second Connecticut Regt commanded by Charles Webb, for Three years Peter Dimick then of Mansfield now of Paris State of New York Brother to said Joseph joined sd Company in the year of 1779 in the summer as a Substitute for his Brother Joseph commanded then by Capt Woolcot and in Col. Isaac Sherman Regt and done duty as a soldier in sd company until some time in the Winter following and that I enlisted in the year 1777 and served in sd Company & Regt for the term of Three years and further the deponent saith not
Frederick Pearl.
Tolland County ss
Willington December 19 th 1834
Personally appeared the above Frederick Pearl and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition before me
Oliver D. Darrow Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut } County of Tolland } S.S. Tolland
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of Tolland County by Court do certify that Origen Dimock Esq. before whom the within deposition of Frederick Peck On the 19 th day of December 1834. was taken taken and re-subscribed was then & still is a Justice of Peace within & for the County of Tolland duly authorized to take depositions and administer oaths and that the signature to the within certificate purporting to be sd Justice Dimock's is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of sd County Court this 22 nd day of December 1834 Jeremiah Parish Clerk

Revolutionary Claims Sp-act Mar 27 New-Hartford MAR 20 NY
FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comr. of Pensions Washington City.

State of New York Oneida County Jo.
Peter Dinnick of Paris in said county of Oneida being duly sworn makes affidavit and says that he is the same person who made application for a pension under the law of June 7 th 1832. — that in his application for a pension he stated (according to his best recollection) his services to have been performed in Colo. Charles Webb's Regiment, Connecticut line: — that, not having been fortunate enough to obtain a pension at the pension office, he preferred his petition to Congress for relief at the last  delivered session commencing in December 1835. and submitted the said petition to the Hon. Samuel Beardsley then a member of the House of Rep. from this state with a request that he would present the same: — that on the resignation of the Hon. S. Beardsley this deponent was informed the care of his petition was confided to the Hon. J. T. Surrall also a member from this state: — that on the 28 th of June 1836 as appears by the published acts of Congress, an act for the relief of this deponent was passed granting him a pension of twenty dollars a year, during his natural life, to commence on the 4 th of March 1831. — And this deponent further testifies that he is the identical person named in said Act; and Samuel Dakin Esq. of New Hartford has been this deponent's attorney through the whole proceedings of said application & petition & is still this deponent's attorney & that this deponent authorizes & requests the Commissioner of Pensions to forward the pension Certificate to the said Samuel Dakin for the use of this deponent.
Subscribed & sworn March 20. 1837 before me Peter Dinnick Jonathan Richardson J. P. Clerk

New Hartford March 20. 1837.
Sir -
Yours of March 7 th in relation to Peter Dimick, I have received, and herewith forward to your Office his affidavit setting forth the facts and circumstances you have required in your letter, It seems I was wrongly informed as to the pension granted him.
Not having the law in my office I requested the Hon. J Durrill to inform me what had been the fate of Dimick's petition & he returned an answer that " twenty dollars per month " have been given him. This was the foundation of the erroneous statement I made in my letter to you.
I have now only to say that Mr Dimick is a very worthy & poor man & needs his pension & is very desirous that his certificate may be forwarded without delay.
I am very respectfully
Your Obedient Serv t
Sam d Dakin
J. L. Edwards Esq
P.S. As J Richardson Esq is the general agent for the pensioners in this vicinity I deem it not necessary to annex the County Clerk's certificate to the aff t . as the said Richardson is doubtless well known as a magistrate at your Office

Revolutionary Claims June 8.
FREE
J. L. Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions Washington City.
John Kenrick

New Hartford 3 rd June 1835
J. L. Edwards Esq. —
Sir —
I am requested by Mr. Peter Dimick to ask of you the favor to forward to me, if it be not inconsistent with the rules of the War Office, the depositions of Solomon Fenton and Frederick Pearl which were forwarded to the Office last winter by the Hon. Calvin Willey of Connecticut. As the application  claim of Mr. Dimick for a pension, in which those depositions were used, has been rejected, those depositions are probably of no use in the Office, & as Mr. Dimick is desirous to use them in another shape, it would save him a good deal of trouble & expense, if he could have the favor of their return, should there be no impropriety in it & I am not aware that there can be any.
I am very respectfully
Your Ob t . Serv t
Saml Bakin

Feb 20
M rs . L. Edwards Dunedin
Hon. S. Beasley

Ho: J Rep!
July 19 - 1835
Sir,
Is the enclosed case finally settled against Mr. Dimick? If so may I ask a statement of the grounds on which the decision was made, Please send the enclosed to
me with your answer
I am &c
Yr. Obediently
J. L. Edwards

Revolutionary Pensions.
Nov 4
FREE.
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secy of war
Washington City

New Hartford Oct. 30 - 1833.
Hon. Lewis Cass -
Enclosed I send you the Declaration of Peter Dimick, for a pension, I trust the statement & proof will be sufficient although the decrepit old man is so unfortunate as not to be able to find any person who was in the service with him or who knows of his services except by tradition. I really hope he may be so fortunate as to obtain a pension in his old age & meager circumstances. — Please forward any communication necessary to me —
Very respectfully
Your obedt. servt. —
Sam d Dakin

Willington Ct Jan 8 th
Four
Hon. S. Beardsley Member of Congress Washington City D. C.
post mark in

Wilington January 7 th AD 1836
Dear Sir yours of the 29 th Dec r ultimo has just come to hand having been missent in reply to which I can state that I have been acquainted with Fredick D r earl and Solomon Finton ever since I was a child say thirty five years They are both of them now living in this town where I believe they were born and are in good health and retain their mental faculties well And I have no hesitation in saying that both of them have always sustained a good moral character and are men whose testimony is entitled to entire credit Mr Finton is somewhat celebrated for his moral integrity and frankness in all his dealings with his fellow men in short if necessary their characters can be supported by the oath of the first men in this county.
Respectfully Yours, Hiram Pierce
R.S. Please remember me to my friend Col. Hudson and oblige yours &c H. Pierce

This certifies that Hiram Riden whose signature is affixed to the within letter, is a gentleman well known to me, and he outshines the character of a man of truth. I may add, that Mr Riden is, and has been for many years past, the Sheriff of the County of Tolland in the State of Connecticut. and he has often been a member of the Connecticut Legislature. Wadsworth Jan'y 19. 1836 Andrew Judson
A.C.

H.R. 222.
Peter Dinick —
Act 28 June 1836. Albany roll $20 pr Ann Com d 4 March 1831.
Sam d Dakin, New Hartford, N. York.
Ento.
Com: on Pensions

Revolutionary Claims
RECEIVED
Peter Brimmer Spock
To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

New Hartford Oneida County N.Y. Feb. 27. 1837.
Sir -
The Hon. J. Turrill of the House of Rep. informs me by his letter of Feb. 20. now before me, that "on the 28 th of June last a law was passed allowing Peter Dinick a pension of $20 per month from the 4 th of March 1831 during his natural life".
Mr Dinick resides in this neighborhood & originally employed me as his attorney in his application for a pension. His claim was not allowed at the pension office on account of some disagreement between the old army records & the evidence he offered of his services. I advised him to prefer a petition to Congress & he did so and it seems by the passage of the law in his favor that Congress thereby considered him justly entitled to his pension.
I have this day seen Mr Dinick and he desires that his pension Certificate may be forwarded to me at this place as soon as may be. — Please to forward the same — very respectfully
Yours &c
Saml Dakin
To the Com te of Pensions. —

I hereby Certify, that the accompanying pages numbered from 1 to 4 inclusive are truly copied from the originals in the Pension Office, War Department.
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
Be it Remembered, that JAMES L. EDWARDS, who has signed the foregoing certificate, is Commissioner of Pensions; and that to his attestations full faith and credit are and ought to be given. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed, on this 10 th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
C. A. Harris Acting Secretary of War.

I Solomon Henton of Willington. Tolland County State of Connecticut of the age of seventy six years old, certify and say that Peter Dimick formerly of Mansfield in Connecticut now of Paris in the State of New York joined the 3 d Connecticut regiment commanded by Col Isaac Sherman in the fore part of July 1779 in Capt Wolcotts company which company I served in and he the said Peter Dimick did duty in the same company as a substitute for his Brother Joseph Dimick until the fore part of February A.D. 1780 and then was discharged and further the Dependant saith not  Willington December 15 th 1834
Solomon Henton
Tolland county jr
Willington Dec r 15 th 1834
Personally appeared the above named Solomon Henton and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition before me
Daniel Glazier Justice of Peace

Tolland County in the State of Connecticut. S.S. Tolland
I Jeremiah Parrish clerk of Tolland County Court do hereby certify that Daniel Glazier Esq before whom the within affidavit on the 17 th day of December instant was taken and authenticated, then was and still is a justice of Peace in and for Tolland County and duly authorized to take depositions and administer oaths and that the signature to the within certificate purporting to be said Justice Glaziers is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said County Court this 22 d day of December 1834 Jeremiah Parrish clerk

Iowa and Connecticut Dec 23 1884
James L Edwards Esq, Commissioner of Pensions.
Dear Sir In at the request of Peter Dinick of Paris in the State of New York now here, I transmit the Depositions of Frederick Pine and Solomon Fenton to prove the service of said Dinick, as a substitute for his Brother. These Depositions are credible testimony I am well acquainted with both of them, Dinick has come from Paris here on purpose to procure these Depositions at great expense for him he being poor, he wishes you to send his Certificate to me should his claim be allowed & if not that you would write me on the subject. I understand by him his Declaration and papers are in the pension office and his claim for want of evidence was once disallowed. I hope this additional evidence may prove satisfactory. Mr Dinick was formerly from this County and will continue here till he knows the result of his claim.
Very respectfully Calvin Willey

I Solomon Fenton of Willington Tolland County State of Connecticut of the age of seventy six years old certify and say that Peter Dimek formerly of Mansfield in Connecticut now of Paris in the State of New York joined the 2 d Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Isaac Shorman in the fore part of July 1779 in Capt. Wolcott Company which Company I served in and he the said Peter Dimek did duty in the same Company as a Substitute for his Brother Joseph Dimek until the fore part of February 1780 and then was discharged and further the Deponent saith not Willington December 19-1834
Solomon Fenton
Tolland County ss. Willington Dec r 19-1834 Personally appeared the above named Solomon Fenton and made oath to the truth of the above deposition before me
Daniel Glazier Justice Peace

Tolland County in the State of Connecticut S. S. Tolland
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of Tolland County do hereby certify that Daniel Glazier Esq before whom the within affidavit on the 19 th day of December last was taken & authorized then was and still is a Justice of Peace in and for Tolland County & duly authorized to take depositions and administer oaths and that the signature to the within Certificate purporting to be said Justice Glaziers is genuine —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said County this 22 nd day of December 1834
Jeremiah Parish Clerk

PETER DIMICK.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 222.]
JANUARY 27, 1836.
Mr. BOND, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to which was referred the petition of Peter Dimick, have considered the same, and now report:
That the petitioner alleges, that he served seven months during the American revolution, in the army of the United States: that his service was rendered as a substitute for one Joseph Dimick, an enlisted soldier: that he has applied at the War Department for a pension; but his application has been rejected, on the ground that the roll of the company, in which his services were rendered, exhibits the name of Joseph instead of Peter Dimick.
The services of the petitioner, as stated, are pretty clearly established, as the committee think, by the testimony of Frederick Pearl, who is proved to be a credible witness. Under these circumstances, the committee think the petitioner is entitled to relief, and report a bill accordingly.
Blair & Rives, printers.

24th CONGRESS, 1st Session.
H. R. 222.
Ms 103
JANUARY 27, 1836.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. BOND, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill:
An Act
A BILL
For the relief of Peter Dimick of the State of New York.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 3 the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of Peter 4 Dimick, of the State of New York, on the roll of revolutionary 5 pensioners, and to pay him twenty dollars per year, during his 6 natural life, commencing on the fourth day of March, in the 7 year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Approved 28th June 1836.
A true copy compared with the Roll in this Office.
Dept of State } June 30th 1836 }
Abraham Brink Chief Clerk

Rooters
23197
INVALID.
see
File No. 23,197
Peter Dimick
Rev Rev
Act: James V. 32
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 109
[Arrangement of 1870.]
2961
P. O. Peter Dimick
Service: _____

del 9 June 1835 to Saml. Dake
New York
Rev.
Act 7. June 1832
Peter Dimeck
Rejected
Rejected
Rejected
Le let to S. Dakin 20 Sept 1834
Letter to
Saml. Dake
Nov. 15. 1833
Let #17 Jan'y 1835-
to Hon. C. Willey
to Hon. S. Beardsey 21 Feb'y 1835

1 Fredrick Pearl of Willington in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut being Seventy three years of age do depose and say that Joseph Derrick then of Willington in the State of Connecticut in the year 1777 enlisted a private in capt: Jonathan Parkers company, Second Connecticut regiment commanded by Charles Webb for three years Peter Derrick then of Mansfield now of Paris State of New York, Brother to said Joseph, joined said company in the year of 1779 in the summer as a substitute for his brother Joseph commanded there by capt: Woolcot and in col Isaac Shermans regiment and done duty as a soldier in said company until some time in the winter following; and that I enlisted in the year 1777 and served in said company and regiment for the term of three years and further the deponent saith not
Fredrick Pearl
Tolland County ss
Willington December 19 th 1834
Personally appeared the above Fredrick Pearl and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition before me Orion Durdick Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut } ss Tolland County of Tolland }
I Jeremiah Parish clerk of Tolland County do hereby certify that Original Deposition of Frederick Pease, on the 19 th day of December 1834 was taken, and authenticated was then and still as a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Tolland duly authorized to take depositions and administer oaths, and that the signature to the within certificate purporting to be said Justice Pease is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said County Court this 22 d day of December 1834
Jeremiah Parish Clerk
Isseci

In the matter of Peter Dimick's application for a pension.
supplemental affidavit

State of New York } Onida County ss. }
Peter Dinnick being duly sworn says that he is the same person who has already sent in his declaration for a pension under the act of June 7. 1832 - that having omitted to state the name of his Colonel, in that declaration, for the reason that the great length of time, old age & lapse of memory had obliterated the name from his remembrance - he has made diligent inquiry has since been informed & verily believes the name of his Colonel was Willis or Wylllys, in the continental line , in which seven months of the service specified in his said declaration was performed - & that three months of said service was performed in the militia line where he is still unable, for the causes above stated, to give the name of his Colonel, nor has he been informed of the name by any of his old acquaintances.
Peter Dinnick
Subscribed & sworn September 15 th 1834 before me
SAM DAKIN justice of the peace
And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said Peter Dinnick & that he is a respectable person & man of truth & credit is to be given to his statements.
SAM DAKIN justice of the peace
As the Department have the certificate of the clerk of this county relating to my office in several instances I have told Mr. Dinnick, I believe the rules would not require that he should prove it again. I hope the honest old man may now be fortunate enough to receive a little help before his sun goes down in death.
S. Dakin

Peter Dimick
Old soldier
Petition
Dec. 16 1835
Ref d to the Com ee on Rev d Pensions
January 27 1836 Bill reported N o 222
Rev. pensions
Handly 79.

whole claim was rejected. —
Your Petitioner is not disposed to find fault with the doings of the Officers of the Pension Department. They were bound by technical rules wholesome in their general application but sometimes bearing hard upon manifest equity. Although it was consistent with a wholesome rule; and although the Officers to whom your Petitioner's claim was submitted were entirely justifiable in rejecting his claim under the authority of that rule, yet it is manifest that because your Petitioner's name did not happen to be placed on the rolls as a substitute for Joseph Dimick, through the fault probably of some of the minor officers of the company wherein the service was performed, your Petitioner must suffer great injury if he cannot now obtain the benefit of the services which he has proved by three witnesses, to have rendered as such substitute , and merely because at the same time the name of Joseph Dimick remained then, and now now remains on the rolls. Your Petitioner fully believes that the fact of suffering the name of Joseph Dimick to remain on the rolls without the entry of your Petitioner's name as his substitute is an error of the officer who kept the rolls; and as this error occurred at a time of
great peril and distress, when the heart of patriots quailed, and their hands constantly found more important work to do, than the trifling employment of merely substituting one name for another, your Petitioner confidently hopes this Honorable Congress will yet consider his case; and now, since his head is whitened for the grave and his feet are just ready to enter the dark and gloomy valley, that they will not suffer him to depart, uncheered by his country's bounty; but that he may yet, while among his compatriots of the revolution for the few short days yet allotted to him, be permitted to taste a little of that bounty and thereby be enabled to join with his old associates in arms in celebrating the glory & the gratitude of his country.
And as in duty bound will ever pray — Dated September 7 th 1835. Peter Dimick

To the Honorable Congress of the United States the Petition of Peter Dinick of Kirkland in the county of Oneida and state of New York respectfully shows -
That your Petitioner was a private soldier in the army of the Revolution and served in that capacity in achieving the Independence of these States: - that since the passage of the Act of Congress of June 7 th 1832 relating to this subject, your Petitioner has duly made application to the Pension Office for his pension pursuant to that Act, and in his declaration set forth, as to a part of his services, that he served seven months as a substitute for his brother Joseph Dinick and proved his services as a substitute as aforesaid by two credible witnesses in addition to his own testimony of the same service: - that after his papers were sent to the Pension Office, he received a letter from J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions, informing your Petitioner that his service of substitute for his brother Joseph Dinick was discredited by the rolls which show that Joseph Dinick served out his own engagement; and the residue of the term of service proved being less than the minimum provision of the Act, your Petitioner is

whole claim was rejected. —
Your Petitioner is not disposed to find fault with the doings of the Officers of the Pension Department. They were bound by technical rules wholesome in their general application but sometimes bearing hard upon manifest equity. Although it was consistent with a wholesome rule, and although the Officers to whom your Petitioner's claim was submitted were entirely justifiable in rejecting his claim under the authority of that rule, yet it is manifest that because your Petitioner's name did not happen to be placed on the rolls as a substitute for Joseph Dimick, through the fault probably of some of the minor officers of the company wherein the service was performed, your Petitioner must suffer great injury if he cannot now obtain the benefit of the services which he has proved by three witnesses, to have rendered as such substitute , and merely because at the same time the name of Joseph Dimick remained then, and now now remains on the rolls. Your Petitioner fully believes that the fact of suffering the name of Joseph Dimick to remain on the rolls without the entry of your Petitioner's name as his substitute is an error of the officer who kept the rolls; and as this error occurred at a time of
great peril and distress, when the heart of patriots quailed, and their hands constantly found more important work to do, than the trifling employment of merely substituting one name for another, your Petitioner confidently hopes this Honorable Congress will yet consider his case; and now, since his head is whitened for the grave and his feet are just ready to enter the dark and gloomy valley, that they will not suffer him to depart, uncheered by his country's bounty; but that he may yet, while among his compatriots of the revolution for the few short days yet allotted to him, be permitted to taste a little of that bounty and thereby be enabled to join with his old associates in arms in celebrating the glory & the gratitude of his country.
And as in duty bound will ever pray —
Dated September 7 th 1835.
Peter Dimick